Foreword by Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba; Preface; Acknowledgements; General Introduction: Politics is thought, thought is real, people think; Part One Understanding Subjective Political Sequences; From African History to African Historical Sequences; Theoretical Introduction: understanding historical political sequences; Chapter 1 From Saint Domingue to Haiti and the Politics of Equality: The Human Freedom Mode of Politics and its Afterlives 1791 - 1796, 1804 - 1960; Chapter 2 Are Those-who-do-not-count Capable of Reason? On the limits of historical thought; Chapter 3 The National Liberation Struggle Mode of Politics in Africa 1945 - 1975; Chapter 4 South Africa and the People's Power Mode of Politics 1984 - 1986; Chapter 5 From Emancipatory Nationalism to National Chauvinism in South Africa: 1973 - 2013; Chapter 6 Rethinking Militancy and Popular Politics; Conclusion to Part One: Understanding Fidelity to the South African Emancipatory Event: the Treatment Action Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo; Part Two Opening up the Thought of Politics in Africa Today - Exceeding the Limits of Sociology beyond Representation Theoretical Introduction: social representation, modes of rule and political prescriptions; Chapter 7 Marxism and the Politics of Representation: the 'agrarian question' and the limits of political economy; Chapter 8 Thinking beyond Representation, Acting beyond Representation: understanding worker subjectivities in South Africa toda; Chapter 9 Renaming the State in Africa today; Chapter 10 State Domains of Politics and Systemic Violence in Africa today; Chapter 11 Rethinking the Domain of Civil Society and its Politics; Chapter 12 Rethinking the Domain of Traditional Society and its Politics; Conclusion to Part Two: Toward a Politics of Solidarity; General Conclusion: Constituting the Domain of Freedom: thinking politics at a distance from the state; Bibliography; Index.

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Michael Neocosmos has taught at various universities and worked as an activist across Europe and Africa for many years. He has been the director of the Unit for the Humanities (UHURU) at Rhodes University since January 2014.

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